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...install security fences and better lighting. Such measures irritated the thieves and drug peddlers who ruled the streets. They tore down the fences. Lindsey and some neighbors put the fences up again, then stood guard. One thug attacked Lindsey with a knife, slashed through his windbreaker and cut his stomach. Lindsey whipped out a .38 and shoved it under the knifer's nose. "I told him to get on his knees and beg," says Lindsey. "I could have killed that...
This stereotype of glamour and prestige never seems so unreal as when a correspondent is confronted by overwhelming, stomach-wrenching misery and death. New Delhi Bureau Chief Dean Brelis faced such a scene last week when he arrived in Bhopal, India, just 30 hours after a toxic gas leak had created the world's worst industrial disaster. "I have seen men killed in battle," Brelis reported after walking through streets littered with the corpses of people and animals. "But seeing ordinary people dying before your eyes, especially mute children falling dead in a transfixed silence, is appalling. I felt...
...rumors late last week when he appeared at a 1¾-hour Cabinet meeting in his study at Malacanang Palace. In a variation on a theme by the late Lyndon Johnson, who once publicly showed off his abdominal-surgery scars, Marcos raised his shirt to show a stomach and chest free of any signs of recent surgery. His audience laughed at the gesture, perhaps nervously; Marcos invited any Cabinet official who did not believe in his good health-and talked about itto resign...
...hard to stomach the Administration's claim that the deficit reduction burden is being shared equally by all segments of society. Slashing medicare, child nutrition and other socially progressive programs while leaving corporate profits untouched does not chime with our nations of equality...
...Indian students jokingly call the "wannabee" tribe (translate: the Want-to-be Indians), who flock to reservations carrying the good word of education and health care. Of course they are appreciated, and Tsosie says his education started with them; but their outsider, holier-than-thou attitude is hard to stomach, Tsosie says...